England [287 & 180] beat India [274 & 162] by 31 runs in first Test to take 1-0 series lead

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No point in blaming pandya for defeat. We desis just like to criticize the last man standing & forget the top order batsmen. It is the top order KL rahul( who has got lot of hype on PP as well), Murali vijay & dhawan who have cost india this match. Why does Kohli have to carry them in every match?

No point in blaming pandya for defeat. We desis just like to criticize the last man standing & forget the top order batsmen. It is the top order KL rahul( who has got lot of hype on PP as well), Murali vijay & dhawan who have cost india this match. Why does Kohli have to carry them in every match?

I don't blame pandya for the loss but for being a spineless selfish coward who doesn't care if his team wins or loses as long as it doesn't hurt this average.

No point in blaming pandya for defeat. We desis just like to criticize the last man standing & forget the top order batsmen. It is the top order KL rahul( who has got lot of hype on PP as well), Murali vijay & dhawan who have cost india this match. Why does Kohli have to carry them in every match?

I'd say Rahane has to shoulder the biggest share of the blame.
He's allegedly our best overseas test batsman.

I don't blame pandya for the loss but for being a spineless selfish coward who doesn't care if his team wins or loses as long as it doesn't hurt this average.

This is the same rhetoric we pak fans heard about misbah while our top order continuously failed & was routinely carried by him & Younis bhai for more than five years. This is just making him a scapegoat while ignoring the weak links in the top order. It is the same in odis. You take kohli & rohit sharma out in limited overs & I doubt this team can even win at home.

This is the same rhetoric we pak fans heard about misbah while our top order continuously failed & was routinely carried by him & Younis bhai for more than five years. This is just making him a scapegoat while ignoring the weak links in the top order. It is the same in odis. You take kohli & rohit sharma out in limited overs & I doubt this team can even win at home.

There are many problems with this team but losing because of some failures is acceptable, what pandya did isn't. You should be trying to win games not better your average. Also given the fact that this team give or take a change or 2 has been invincible at home, you clearly don't know what your talking about.

I remember saying this yesterday if we looses then it's cause of drop catches of dhawan but if we wins then it's cause of drop catches of malan. I hope both hopefully played their last test of carrier.

There are many problems with this team but losing because of some failures is acceptable, what pandya did isn't. You should be trying to win games not better your average. Also given the fact that this team give or take a change or 2 has been invincible at home, you clearly don't know what your talking about.

Exactly. Just because you stayed till the end doesn't mean you can give strike to tail. Misbah did this too, and that's why he was called out.

There are many problems with this team but losing because of some failures is acceptable, what pandya did isn't. You should be trying to win games not better your average. Also given the fact that this team give or take a change or 2 has been invincible at home, you clearly don't know what your talking about.

How can you expect your all rounder to finish the match in 4th innings where your specialist batsmen are finding hard to score runs? The fact that he even came this far is impressive. He was trying his best to survive in a pretty bad situation & was very fluent when kohli was on the crease.

How can you expect your all rounder to finish the match in 4th innings where your specialist batsmen are finding hard to score runs? The fact that he even came this far is impressive. He was trying his best to survive in a pretty bad situation & was very fluent when kohli was on the crease.

If he didn't take single off the first ball trying to protect his average and got out next ball, i wouldn't have complained, as i said, this loss is not on him. We didn't lose because pandya is a coward, but i blame pandya for being a selfish coward and i want him out of my team.